Reference no: EM133700988

Assignment:

1. First, complete the Pearlin Mastery scale Download Pearlin Mastery scale, a measure of locus of control, and the Perceived Control Over Stressful Life Events Scale Download Perceived Control Over Stressful Life Events Scale(PCOSES) with regard to a current stressor in your life. 1. Reflect on your responses to the Pearlin Mastery Scale and the PCOSES. What critiques - positive or negative - do you have of the measures? Do you think they were valid measures of your general and specific control beliefs?

2. How do your responses to both measures relate to the lecture material on the relations between the three types of control in the temporal model and general internal locus of control beliefs (i.e., mastery). In answering this question, you will need to specifically refer to what the lecture material says about the relations between the three types of control and general internal locus of control. "In the lecture, Different forms of control seemed to have different relations with distress Past control is unassociated or positively associated with distress ,contrary to assumption in literature that controllable events are less distressing and traumas generally aren't controllable. Future control evidence mixed, it may depend on actual controllability. In Present control consistently related to less distress, it is more strongly related to less distress than other types of control.

3. Based on what you learned from completing the stress log, what changes can you make to how you cope with your stressors by focusing more on what you can control?